Last October, the science community was all agog by the announcement that Fazlul H Sarkar, PhD, was suing PubPeer, demanding that they release the names of the anonymous commenters who had criticized numerous papers that had come from his laboratory…
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The Franzen Case. Nanochemistry In Fantasy Land Or All That Glitters Is Not Palladium
Last month (October), I had the pleasure of attending a lecture at New York University (NYU) given by a fellow whistle blower, Stefan Franzen, who was hosted by another fellow whistle blower, Bart Kahr. Stefan, who hails from the North…
Cheating in Science: Who Cares?
Last week I went to the annual meeting of the Radiation Research Society in Las Vegas. I had a poster on display during the entire meeting in the poster room and was scheduled to stand by and explain it during…
8/27/2014
I am having trouble keeping up with all the news that I would like to talk about in this blog! Stay with me, I am doing my best! Retraction Watch is running about 2 posts a day since last I…
What’s new this week
It’s always good to get an email from Ed Yong — good, bad and interesting news on the science home front. Try Edyong209@gmail.com to subscribe to his blog. Retraction Watch (http://retractionwatch.com) has had some interesting posts this week: “A researcher at Tufts…
Crooked Symmetry
In an article posted in Nature on May 9, 2013, Eugenie Samuel Reich reports on a study published in Nature and featured on the front cover in 2005 that purported to demonstrate that dancers with symmetrical bodies were rated more…